Factors of Health - Communications

How does Communication help health?

• Finds new cures

• Speeds up how fast ideas spreads?

• Helps make random discoveries

• Keeps monks busy

What couldn't most people do in the Middle Ages?

• Plant wheat

• Breathe

• Wear clothes

• Read and Write

Who copied books in the Middle Ages?

• Priests

• The pope

• Peasants

• Monks

Why did hand copying books cause problems for doctors?

• Monks never copied medical books

• Monks never drew diagrams

• Books were very expensive

• Books had to be free

Which Roman author did the Church support so monks tended to copy a lot?

• Galen

• Guttenberg

• Caxton

• John Huss

Who invented the movable type printing press?

• John Huss

• William Caxton

• Johannes Guttenberg

• Hippocrates

In what year was the movable type printing press invented?

• 1400

• 1420

• 1440

• 1460

The Printing Press made books cheaper. In 1520 the average doctor owned 2 books. How many did they own in the 1590s?

• 11

• 17

• 24

• 27

Vesalius' book had a high standard of diagrams. What was it called?

• Grey's Anatomy

• Fabric of the Human Body

• Structure of the Human Body

• The Tablet

What method of transport in the 19th Century meant doctors [and ideas] could travel quicker?

• Cars

• Horses

• Railways

• Chariots